Datawrapper 1.8

The chart editor got a redesign including a switch of the default font.

In line charts you can now annotate time ranges in the chart.

Also the line chart got a new “custom range” setting that replaces a the existing settings “Extend range to nice ticks” (now you can just pick your own axis range!) and “invert y-axis” (simply switch min and max in custom range) .

We added a new default theme for Datawrapper Single users that has no “Created with Datawrapper”.

Under the hood

We made Datawrapper ready for per-user plugin assignments, which is the basis for Datawrapper Single. Note that this change doesn’t affect self-hosted instances in any way: you can use Datawrapper as before.

Simplified plugin development: no need for a complicated plugin class (plugin.php) anymore, instead you can now add a script init.php.

There is a new automake mode (add “automake: true” to your config.yaml) for easier plugin development.

We removed all traces of the old email-based theme restrictions. To restrict a theme to certain users or groups, use products and/or organizations.

Allowed configuration of mail sender

If a plugin gets installed, Datawrapper is trying to autoload the plugin dependencies if the plugin uses composer

We refactored the Datawrapper core CSS using LESS.

The following plugins were removed from core: export-image, pubish-s3, export-static-image.

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Gregor Aisch(@driven_by_data) is CTO and lead developer at Datawrapper. He started working on Datawrapper in 2012 and spent the last four years making graphics at The New York Times. Gregor lives in Berlin.